GREECE: Our Dead Demand . . .

To Cairo by plane from London hurried King
George of the Hellenes to steady the rocking boat of the Greek
Government in Exile. Promptly he promised a government "composed
largely of Greeks who have lived in their country under enemy
occupation." Promptly he persuaded liberal Sophocles Venizelos to take
the premiership he had declined a week earlier (TIME, April 17).

Popular Premier Venizelos knew what most Greeks in the Middle East
urgently wanted: an end to the old Tsouderos cabinet's dilatoriness, a
broadened government capable of administering liberated Greece until
elections could be held. His crushing task was to find...